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Originally Posted by braisler
Right, and if the double standard is to be defeated maybe more women should be as open as men have been/are about encouraging or allowing the flip side of this behavior in men.
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My impression is the problem is not with women not being "open" enough... it's with men condemning or making fun of each other (or worse, killing each other) for this kind of behavior. We had a bit of that going on at the beginning of the thread as well, right here. I'm not saying that every woman is going to open to this kind of thing, but I doubt that it's usually women who have the physically violent reactions towards this behavior that it usually gets from men.
I think the double standard is more from the men's side than the women's, particularly since men are the primary consumers of porn, and it's often within porn where things get decided as being either "mainstream" or "wayside." Chicks banging each other is mainstream/hotness; guys doing it is fringe (and being male and gay is still seen as "fringe," instead of mainstream) and therefore gets channeled into the "gay only" section. Straight men won't touch it. That's a double standard, if you ask me.